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The quicksilver card from capital one. unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase, every day. dont settle for anything less. ill keep asking. whats in your wallet? paragraph of paragraph perm story segment tonight. u.s. marine held in a mexican prison. sergeant andrew tahmooressi made a wrong turn. drove. promptly arrested for having registered guns in his vehicle. two months. completely bogus. the sergeant simply made a mistake. so well now apply some pressure on the mexican government...

Lie about whether or not he has been to tijuana before. he has been apparently but his attorney said, dont tell them that. that is where the beef was. now he has to start over. what do you think about that issue and how it is relevant to this case? >> the issue is saying he never intended to go into mexico. according to this marine his lawyer saying tell him youve never been to mexico and that is part of the reason you were confused. he no, i have been to tijuana before. i was confused this time...

He moved to san diego for ptsd treatment after two tours in afghanistan. he had been in tijuanas, he came home, got confused and ended up back in mexico. he claims he told mexican customs officials he made the wrong turn, he had guns in the car. after an hour they were prepared to escort him back to the up s. until the mexican military heard on the radio begun were involved. >> he got on the walkie-talkie and was communicating what was going on. i think what he said was we have got a guy down he...

Stick to the script. thats what the lawyer is saying to the mother. so it appears -- the evidence appears the lawyer said, dont tell them you have ever been to mexico before. that is a lie. that andrew apparently said that early on -- i dont know, maybe for some clerk or prosecutor -- and then within like a day, he wanted to correct it and he has all this sort of interference, his lawyers telling him not to do that and very up happy with the lawyer, and then it brings you to yesterday where he f...

Military made a wrong turn and accidently ended up in the united states, that foreign national would usually be out on within hours of that arrest and awaiting trial. in the meantime, his defense lawyer could go to the prosecutor, show the video and urge the prosecutor to exercise prosecutorial discretion and throw the case out. now, sergeant tahmooressis case is that simple. it just needs to be heard and asking for swift justice is not an affront to the mexican people or their laws. he has alre...

Tell a mexican judge why hes innocent and should go free, but according to a mexican government judicial source, the u.s. marine fired both of his mexican lawyers before wednesdays hearing even began. the judge then started the hearing and quickly suspended the proceedings. the 25-year-old decorated marine, an afghanistan war veteran, has been held in a mexican prison for nearly two months. tahmooressi was detained at the border crossing while in possession of three personal firearms bought lega...

So what youre going to see is youre going to see him putting on a case to be able to show that this was all one giant mistake. youre going to see him, for example, i think one of the key pieces of evidence here is he claims as soon as he crossed the border, he called 911 in the united states. and was told that they cant do anything. he knew he had crossed. he was nervous. he said, what do i do? they said turn around, we cant help you. >> theres also apparently, he says, a poorly marked crossing....

A developing story overnight from washington. the defense secretary ordered a review of the military health care system. this in the wake of the growing scandal over the care veterans got at some v.a. hospitals. the new review will assess the quality of the health care at military treatment facilities, as well as the care the department buys from civilian providers. a u.s. marine who accidentally crossed the border in to mexico will get to state his case before a judge in tijuana. the sergeant...

I think the evidence shows that he knew there was at least major doubt about that. and to me thats not honest. >> all right, charles. directly ahead a provocative column in the "the washington post" points the finger at the entertainment industry for the horrible mass murder in santa barbara, california. later, is it legal on that marine thrown into prison by the mexicans because he made a wrong turn. the factor returns in a moment.

Correspondent william lonjeness is north of the border. z9lçç sergeant april drew tahmooressi today. there was no testimony taken because tahmooressi fired his attorney and hes now being provided a new counsel. we have some video from early today when he did arrive from a prison jump suit, gray. hes shackled with five other inmates looking thin but acknowledging reporters with a nod. now, tahmooressi claims that he got lost and he made a wrong turn and inadvertent lent drove into mexico after...